Hamas blindsides Israel with most serious attack in a generation - Jeremy Bowen
www.bbc.com
Risk of flare-up between Palestinian militants and Israel has been deepening for months, writes Jeremy Bowen.

Israel was taken by surprise by the most ambitious operation Hamas has ever launched from Gaza.

The scale of what’s been happening is unprecedented. Hamas breached the wire that separates Gaza from Israel in multiple places in the most serious cross-border attack Israel has faced in more than a generation.

It came a day after the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria in 1973 that started a major Middle East war. The significance of the date will not have been lost on the Hamas leadership.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is at war and will exact a heavy price from its enemies.

Videos and photos of dead Israelis, civilians as well as soldiers, are all over social media.

  • SuperCuber@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1116·
    1 year ago

    until Israel wants to stop

    Excuse me? And how will Israel stop this exactly?

    hurr durr lift the blockade, remove the wall

    And you think Hamas will disband immediately? No, they will launch an all out attack again, because one of their stated holy goals is to murder as many Israelis as possible. The blockade keeps Israelis alive, and your armchair suggestions are stupid.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      And how will Israel stop this exactly?

      Hire a necromancer, reanimate Rabin.

    • Chunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I punch a dog. The dog bites me. I put the dog in a cage. The dog scratches me. I beat the ever loving shit out of the dog. The dog bites me. I torture the dog and then go to the UN and cry that the dog bit me. The UN looks the other way as I attempt to beat the dog to death.